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VJ software

FREE

Krita for concept creation

Inkscape for vector design

OpenToonz and Pencil2D Animation

Blender for 3D animation

Natron for compositing

OBS Studio for live streaming

ShareX for screencasting

OpenShot Video Editor for streamlined video editing.

VPT – Toolkit free projection mapping tool. Have to learn it, for creating shows, comes with all the essentials you need, like OSC, midi, audio analysis. Built using C++ if you are a creative coder this can be your tool of choice to create mind-blowing shows.

Synthesia Live – Live Visuals - good for audio-reactive generative visuals. Free

NOT FREE

Resolume - widely used easy for beginners - Resolme Arena for video mapping, LED installs - good starting place

Modul8 - for Mac - easy connects with MadMapper for video projection - can control lights etc

MixEmergency - connects to Serato series of software. Easy, can send and receive high definition video streams, can mix video between computers, easily change between Video DJs, mix with 3 or more decks

VUO – Interactive Media for creating new media installations. VUO is similar to creative coding tools like Processing, OpenFrameworks, TouchDesigner, etc. It comes with easy to use modules that can get you started with a variety of interactive video projects without any coding.

Painting with Light – Video Art for generating content on the fly. video mapping tool for static and moving images through any video projector onto 3D physical objects.

NotchVFX – Real Time Graphics a real-time production software. Works with a media server - make motion graphics, real-time tracking, virtual worlds and a whole lot more. Real time/live.

VDMX live video input, quartz compositions, custom layout, audio analysis for live visuals, audio-reactive content, music events

Arkaos full-blown VJ software inc projection mapping, musicians like it, inks directly with Pioneer Pro DJ network.

CoGe VJ – VJ Tool limit is the computing power of your machine/graphics card. connects with software like Quartz, IFS generator, VUO image generators, Syphon sources for live camera and other inputs.

VVVV – Interactive Media - toolkit, a node based software that opens up the creative abilities of your hardware. Allowing you to create just about anything you can visualize. Live data input, motions tracking, OpenCV, multi-screen projection. Create live media environments.

Sparck – Immersive Content - immersive interactive spatial augmented reality installation, can project real-time generated virtual content. It helps you to turn your world into a 360° VR environment no matter the shape of your surfaces.

Smode Studio – Interactive Media Server VJ software along with a media server. Control visuals using Audio, Midi, OSC and display directly or use the power of Smode with spout to run visuals into your VJ software

MPM - open source framework for 3D projection mapping using multiple projectors. It contains a basic rendering infrastructure and interactive tools for projector calibration.

Visution – Projection Mapping versatile video projection mapping software. Allows interaction by pixel rather than other tools which restrict you with grid points. The good part is Mapio2 allows you to throw virtually any video format into your media playlist. For multi-screen setups, projection mapping and permanent installs with a show mode and autostart.

Vioso – Projection Mapping - to align multi projection set ups

Scalable Display – Auto Projection Alignment & Blending uses a camera to automatically wrap and align projectors up to 16 from a single PC. For a permanent installation, this can be very useful, reducing on-site visits and provide robust software to align and wrap your image.

Edge – Media Server - for video mapping. Use this for permanent installations for advertising, museums, retail and other places where you need a robust solution. Edge C is a video server, Edge DS is for digital signage

Mapstard – Media Server This is a timeline controlled video server, not really for live VJing. For controlled shows, where you have pre-defined content to play. DMX functionalities allow timeline control.

Dataton Watchout – Media Server Works on a network of computers connecting your main machine to control slave machines. Allowing you to connect as many projectors as your hardware can handle. Easily create timeline shows, similar to using video editing tools. This is a great option for corporate shows where you need to run content on cue. Watchout display output only works if you buy their dongle.

Millumin – can be used as a media server, can load 3D models for mapping, control light fixtures, connect with external controllers, timeline your show and much more.

Ai Server – Media Server Integrates with leading hardware and software that run behind the console for large scale setups, permanent installs. Integrates with NotchVFX for your real-time shows.

Disguise – Media Server

D3 media server for light shows, do the whole show with this.

Hippotizer – Media Server

Hippotizer - media server for pixel mapping to projection mapping, small scale to large scale

Comes from https://limeartgroup.com/the-mega-list-of-vj-software-and-tools/

Malika Maria

Starting creative coding - what kit do I need?

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Long Film for Four Projectors

Frieze - LFFP https://www.frieze.com/article/light-years

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International bodies involved in information governance

OECD

Climate Disclosure Standards Board

 International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). 

IFRS - two international accounting standards bodies https://www.ifrs.org/news-and-events/news/2025/02/join-the-staff-issb-technical-staff-interoperability-jurisdictional-engagement/

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Archives of Peter Mudie at UWA Jan 2025

6 x 52 lite Bunnings cartons, boxed and labelled by Peter’s children.

1 x small Bunnings carton boxed and labelled by Peter’s children.

2 x recall archives boxes

3 x a4 photocopy paper boxes, 1 labelled by Peter’s chikdren, 1 no lid, 1 labelled by Peter.

1 white shoebox

1 x film box (2x35mm size)

2x 52L PPS cartons, apparently boxed and labelled by Peter.

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Finding sustainable stuff to buy

I think I like this woman a lot https://sustainablysorted.com/about/

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Western Australia New Music Archive

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Aged care nz

Support services for older people

https://info.health.nz/services-support/support-services/older-people/support-services-for-older-people

5 types of support

Personal care

household support

carer support

rehabilitation

Equipment

You have to be eligible - nz citizen

Have to do a needs assessment

Objectives include connection to community.

Community services card

- low income makes you eligible, sons super only people are eligible, has no asset test

So it is relevant but of limited benefit: cheap medicine and cheap transport

NASC

getting an assessment

https://www.govt.nz/browse/health/help-in-your-home/needs-assessment/#369

Families can iniate an assessment but a referral is better

Day care programs

Tuwharetoa. St John's Wood, Wharerangi

home-based provider, run services of day care

NASC https://www.lakesdhb.govt.nz/our-services/needs-assessment-service-co-ordination/

Caterer Taupo

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Kambah Turns 50

From Aug 16 to Oct 12, the exhibition Kambah Turns 50 is on at one of Canberra's Territory-government funded arts venues, the Tuggeranong Arts Centre https://tuggeranongarts.com/kambah-50-group-exhibition-16-aug-12-oct/

I'm the curator and artist behind the exhibition. It had great coverage in the Canberra Times last Saturday (24 Aug) with a box on the front page and an almost full page review. The online version called it a 'must-see exhibition'. The exhibition is just one component of this project about my suburb Kambah. The purpose was to explore how we can build relationships in our community, strengthen our ties. I've been working over four years to explore how heritage and our sense of a past that we share through the celebrations of the 50th this year can do this. The success of the exhibition and the numerous related events suggest it's worked.

How does this connect to Perth? Kambah and Midland seem to share some things in common - era and planners, it seems that Gordon Stephenson had a hand in both. So there may be work to do to explore reputational repair in Midland as well. I spent lots of time in Midland in the first quarter of 2024.

Front page of the Canberra Times, Sat 24 Aug 2024.

It includes the work of six other artists and items from cultural collections in Canberra and other parts of Australia. Also in the show are items from residents and former residents, works created by the Arts Centre with a local school and photographs discovered through a public program run by the Arts Centre. From my perspective, the whole exhibition is an artwork, an exploration of my suburb Kambah and how it is viewed and experienced. Why do I think of it as an artwork in itself? What follows teases this out.

Kambah is a suburb of Canberra with a mixed reputation in the ACT community. In 2009, it was honoured or maligned, depending on your point of view, as Canberra's biggest bogan suburb. I've lived in Kambah for a decade and when I moved here, I was puzzled by this reputation. Yes, we are mixed socio-economically and our housing is diverse - from thoughtful 1970s architecture to modest state-built houses, government houses or 'govvies' as we call them in Canberra. Yet we're surrounded by hills, right next to the Murrumbidgee and with the backdrop of the Brindabella mountains. It is physically beautiful with a canopy of 1970s eucalypts that means the houses of the suburb almost completely disappear when you view Kambah from the hilltops.

Kambah has a history of losing things - some of this is about not recognising the heritage we have - an example is the homestead of the station 'Kambah', pulled down following vandalism in the 1980s rather than repaired. Other parts of Canberra have their no-longer-needed public buildings, like schools, converted to community centres. Not in Kambah - they are sold, no longer for the community. Research from 2008 conducted by Kambah locals showed we have low social capital with few social networks based in the suburb. Since I came to Kambah I have been an environment volunteer, leading a landcare group. I wondered over our reputation but I also began to recognise it as a risk for us for the future - Australian experience in the past five years shows that as climate change bites, communities that can come together will fare better, communities of South Coast NSW are an obvious example to Canberra people.

In this context, I began a project to map the experience of Kambah, mine and others. This led me to investigate collections and gather reports and reflections from residents into an online 'scrapbook' with a handful of entries in a locative media map for the mobile phone. I grappled with challenges all archivists face, how to represent a community authentically and ethically. So I turned to my own representations of Kambah with a long series of pinhole photographs and photograms. I exhibited these in 2023 at the same venue in the exhibition Kambah. The goal of that exhibition was to learn more stories from the community and to explore what we could do to build our social capital, what could bring us together. I was aware that Kambah would turn 50 in 2024 and I began to explore community reactions to celebrating this milestone. During that 2023 exhibition, I held a series of public events - a physical meet up of the local Facebook group, a kitchen table conversation to talk about planning blueprints for our part of Canberra and a gathering of south Canberra artists. In my mind, the goal was to find ways to bring people together and strengthen or create bonds. I put in a proposal to the Arts Centre for an exhibition on Kambah's 50th. I began having meetings to talk specifically about Kambah's 50th - initially it was a tiny group, mostly of the artists. They contributed the early ideas for how Kambah should celebrate 50 - art at the shops, renaming landmarks to Ngunawal names were two. The Facebook group convenor amplified our small meeting by discussing it on the Kambah noticeboard, members shared ideas: a burn-out comp and bushdance were two that came from there. By then I had confirmation of the exhibition from the Arts Centre so dates were set. I put in a grant drawing on the artists ideas to see if we could make them reality - not successful. In early 2024, meetings drew a few more people and more check-ins with the Facebook group took place to see what resonated with the community.

We soon became a fairly regular group but still just a handful. The ideas and the program took up some of the early ideas and augmented and added to them. Individuals took the lead on events. As we called out for resources, we drew new people and became a group of about a dozen. My role was to start the conversation, push forward on the program, refine and develop the ideas the community suggested and respond as new people offered new ideas and skills that extended what we'd initially planned. The burn-out comp became a classic car show, the long table lunch wasn't exactly one long table but it was a very exciting day with our Federal MP and the Chief Minister in attendance.

Left to right: Pip, Rachel, Andrew Barr, ACT Chief Minister, David Smith, Federal MP for Bean.

The barn dance was dropped as it became clear the community didn't really want it. The bones were there from the first meeting in October 2023 for quite a few of the events but they have been elaborated and expanded in very exciting ways. The ambitious three part heritage day organised by a local historian started as a modest morning walk around the old farm. New events have been added - a trivia quiz, kids' colouring and poetry competitions are examples.

It's such an exciting ride to see the events become reality and to see the Kambah community enthusiastically show up to be part of them.

The challenge is how to claim and share credit appropriately! As an artist, I just want to share it but as an academic, I have a responsibility to claim some of it. Tricky.

The whole idea was to get the community to run with this and claim it for their own. That's been successful beyond my wildest dreams. I do appreciate the personal recognition as I have invested much time and energy. I have a printed section of Hansard in which my Federal MP acknowledged the project and my role in it. The Canberra Times wrote a great review of the exhibition.

Here's the Hansard extract:

There's been lots of media

The Canberra Times Sat 24 Aug 2024

RiotACT - 'Happy birthday, Kambah! The biggest suburb in the Southern Hemisphere, right?*'

4 June 2024 | James Coleman

Mix 106.3

6 July 2024

17 Aug 2024:

Kambah turns 50 this year. To celebrate an exhibition was launched through the week. Louise Curham, Kambah Resident from Kambah Turns 50 shared details about the exhibition

Other media:

Valley FM local radio - interview July 2024

Other media not focused on me but covering Kambah Turns 50:

Canberra Weekly - coverage of Kambah Turns 50

Canberra Times - coverage of Heritage Day events in Kambah Turns 50

Canberra Times - coverage of first residents of Kambah

All the events:

Lantern Walk 10 Aug

Long Table Lunch 18 Aug

Church service 25 Aug

Kids poetry and colouring comps 10-31 Aug

Classic Car Show and Village Fair 31 Aug

Heritage Day 7 Sep

Dogs Picnic 8 Sep

Environment walks 14 Sep

Sunrise walk 15 Sep

Welcome to Country, Smoking Ceremony and planting day 15 Sep

Sustainability Day 22 Sep

Trivia comp 10 Aug to 26 Sep

Arts Centre events:

Call for photos from residents July 2024

Kambah Now and Then - rephotographing Kambah, a workshop with PhotoAccess Aug 31-15 Sep.

Some of the event socials:

The Riot ACT article:

Happy birthday, Kambah! The biggest suburb in the Southern Hemisphere, right?*

4 June 2024 | James Coleman

The Kambah Co-op was founded in 1975 to protest the suburb’s overpriced supermarket. Photo: ArchivesACT.

Kambah was named “Canberra’s booner capital” in 2009 by now-defunct satirical news website The Punch when the anonymous author highlighted the “number of V8 Falcons on the nature strip, wandering terrier dogs, and the enormous size of the local Burns Club”, but there’s a lot more to Kambah than that, according to local Louise Curham.

The loyal resident of 10-plus years is organising a series of events this year to mark 50 years since Kambah’s first residents began moving in in June 1974.

Louise has already spent more than four years constructing a digital map of the entire 1130-hectare suburb, complete with video, audio, text and image entries on various locations so users can tap on an area to learn more about it.

During research for these entries, she would ask everyone the same question: “Is there something about Kambah you know that you would like other people to know?”

She says the answers have been fascinating.

“People from the outside would think Kambah is surely a place you’d like to leave. But I’ve learnt this is not the case. There are a lot of second-generation Kambah people who love it.”

The suburb carries its name from the former Kambah sheep station, belonging to the Bennet family – Canberra aristocracy for their time.

“Kambah Homestead might have been part fibro, but it was very beautifully decorated and had pillars out the front and a sweeping driveway and swimming pool,” Louise adds.

“Life in early Kambah was pretty nice.”

Come the early 1970s, and with then prime minister Gough Whitlam massively expanding the size of the public service and Canberra’s population exploding 10 per cent year on year, the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC) needed somewhere to put all the young families.

The Kambah Woolshed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Nick D.

Rumour has it Kambah ended up so big because some public servant forgot to divvy it up into four suburbs, but in reality, it – together with Wanniassa next door – was planned as big territorial units made up of large blocks. They became known as ‘Nappy Valley’.

“The NCDC held this seminar, where they brought together a whole cross-section of age groups to learn what kind of suburb people wanted to live in,” Louise says.

“They were very much thinking about mental health. They were really trying to think about a place that would be good for people.”

To make room, the creek known as Village Creek was put underground through a pipe, and a large trap was built at the Lake Tuggeranong end to prevent upstream pollution from making its way into the lake – an engineering first for Canberra.

However, when Whitlam was dismissed and his successor Malcolm Fraser got to work slashing 17,000 government jobs, the prediction of 40,000 people in the valley by 1980 collapsed. All the houses were eventually built in subsequent decades but at a much slower rate.

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“It’s really interesting how these big-picture forces play out in our everyday lives that we never think or look at,” Louise says.

Kambah had its own grocer from the beginning, but it didn’t take long for residents to hit back at the overpriced goods by forming their own co-op-style supermarket in 1975, with shares available for $10 each.

Located on Mannheim Street, this was the first and only supermarket in Tuggeranong to be started and owned by a community and the second retail store to open in Tuggeranong.

A Kambah primary school also became the first in Canberra to feature a computer lab because one of the student’s fathers happened to work in the right circles and agreed to help source the equipment.

Kambah was designed to have several local shopping centres, even if some have since folded. Photo: ArchivesACT.

Of course, there are less glamorous accounts, too. Like one from the 1980s, when a male “exposed himself” to a young horse rider. And former pizza delivery drivers who remember the ‘munchies’ houses, where the occupants would round out their marijuana smoking with lots of pizza.

“To find ways to visualise stories like this without necessarily pinpointing them on the map is an interesting challenge,” Louise says.

But the vast majority are positive.

“I mean, like all suburbs, people are busy, and there are lots who live in Kambah who don’t really connect, but then there are others for whom this is a really precious place,” she says.

“And as we have all these planning conversations across the ACT at the moment, if those people don’t speak now, we’re going to get what they give us.”

Kambah has a pretty side. Photo: File.

Louise is hosting a ‘Kambah 50’ event in the foyer of the Tuggeranong Arts Centre on Saturday, 17 August, with a number of other events to come.

‘A Long Table Picnic Lunch’ will be held on Sunday, 18 August, and a dog-friendly community picnic on Sunday, 8 September, with a winter lantern walk, bush dance, and sunrise walk up Mount Taylor (with champagne at the top) also in the works.

*Now, if you’ve come all this way waiting for the claim about Kambah being the biggest suburb in the southern hemisphere, it turns out that’s not true.

Not even close.

In 2017, the ABC wrangled data from PSMA Australia that revealed not only is the Gulf of Carpentaria technically a ‘suburb’ and larger, but there are another 20 to 30 urban suburbs with a similar population size and density to Kambah, but over a larger area. And that’s just in Australia.

Sorry.

Visit the Kambah Turns 50 website or Facebook page for the full program of events. Explore the Kambah People’s Map online.

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WA Information Commissioner - Aust Soc Archivists WA 9 May 2024

Some points from the discussion:

AI explanations - if we can't understand the systems we can't challenge them. To understand they must be documented. So AI explanations are crucial.

Will the new SROWA information management framework be useful? Technology offer fantastic promise for exploring the potential of government data - huge repositories of government data eg demographic data that can be meaningfully explored using tech. The tech has made us aware of the opportunities that exist with data. Data is information, data is a subset of information management. The information management framework in WA (the legis instruments and documents) is needed to help navigation through policies and acts, codes of practice that exist and govern information management. It's an important organising framework.

If government agencies to retain archives and not transfer them SROWA, they need to identify them. Recordkeeping plans require them to be identified but there appears to be a gap in that identification process. There does seem to be a gap in archiving across government. Resourcing at SROWA does not facilitate compliance checks to see if that work is being done. They try but there's no audit program. There is an Auditor-General's audit program (18 months ago a Birth Deaths and Marriages audit did lead to work). It's an issue, relevant for State Records Commission to champion.

A well funded digital archive program is missing in WA. Other states have these. WA Government has not achieved in this area, there have been lots of business cases. If we don't have a digital archive we can't have confidence we've got the memory of government we need. Are we getting any closer? It is well understood that we lack this digital archive and we need it going forward. State Records Commission has zero budget, State Records Office is separate to the Commission. The budget on integrity agencies is very small. We need to be in front of government and talk about that. Government is paying attention to data - SRO information classification policy, really important work and new in this state.

Making agencies think about their asset and the sensitivity of the information - those are a real step forward. The State Records Office has been at the forefront of information classification policy and information management framework, information sharing framework, so much awareness now around personal information ... we will end up looking at the State Records Act.

History Council of WA - historians like established processes. They want to work by consignment - historians are frustrated. Can there be a way to mandate public disclosure of state archives held by government agencies [the problems distributed collections]. If the power for mandating that is not there in State Records Act, there is a register but it's a case of it being in the act, the requirement for the register in the act but it's not being delivered and this is the problem and bringing this to the attention of the government. Drawing attention to the things within the act that State Records is required to do but not resourced to do or is not happening. Need to tell government what's happening in agencies. CIOs need to talk with records people and the public, not interested in the big picture and connectivity, the whole way in which to look at history is collective and joined up then you've never got the collective voice calling for this type of action.

When people do the wrong thing, they need to be held to account. State Records Act holds violations and a breach register but those have never been used. Why? Penalties are low, analysis of recordkeeping issues from c. 400 reports to provide us with enough info to make a report like PROV's analysis from 2020, 2022 of ten years worth of reports. PROV has a local government inspectorate, we dont. Ten years worth of FOI recommendations about recordkeeping. RK issues come up when there are more serious breaches eg CCC investigating for fraud, RK problems are found but they are less important than the criminal offending. The RK is still a problem. When do we prosecute RK offences? The Paul Whyte affair could have had him charged with RK offences. State Records Commission has limited powers. Over 60% of the 400 reports have recordkeeping issues. PROV found about 50%. Consequences for RK offences unlikely to change but important they come to the attention of the State Records Commission.

Should we be happy we don't have a collection in WA? QLD and VIC have far great shelf metrage.

The media is under severe attack, they are so important for a democratic society, they rely on records to tell the story of government. when they're weakened the champions of records are weakened. We have to hope the integrity agencies step up.

Recordkeeping problems in a WA youth detention centre raised by ASA WA. The coroner's court is investigating this issue and another integrity agency both of whom have more powers than the State Records Office, we have to wait the outcome of those investigations. Those other agencies have more powers and we must wait til those are concluded.

Over retention - storing unnecessary information, costing governments money. We need a new study of that cost in WA to follow up on the study from 10-12 years ago.

Public sector management act has RK powers.

Archival methods offer a lot to help us fix information in AI. We have a responsibility to communicate our value.

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Indonesia research

SURVIVE!garage Jogjakarta

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Film to note

Dutch American film maker

BABETH MONDINI-VANLOO

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TLC panel at EMAF

The info about the panel is also listed there. It's Saturday, April 27 at 11am.

Here a short info on the panel:

Together with the curators and artists of the second edition of SPECTRAL. Unburdened Recollections we are going to talk about the works shown, the process of their performance and the work involved in their research and reconstruction. At the same time, we would like to discuss questions about issues of documentation, archiving and the distribution of Expanded Cinema and the ethical dimensions regarding the reconstruction and presentation of works in this field.

The moderation will be by Cèline Ruivo. Here a short bio: Céline Ruivo holds a doctorate in cinema and teaches film archive conservation at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has focused her academic research on early cinema, colour and pre-cinema. She was director of film collections at the Cinémathèque française between 2011 and 2020 and is currently pursuing film restoration projects with European cinémathèques. Cinegraphies, les femmes de la tempête is her first documentary film dedicated to the female avant-garde, a style of cinema that has long fascinated her. She is now vice president of Domitor and until 2023, member of the FIAF technical commission. 

I have included Cinzia in cc. Last year, each curator began with a brief presentation (maximum 10 minutes) to provide additional context about the work, the reenactment, and any potential questions or difficulties. After each presentation, the moderator prepared questions and facilitated a conversation. Therefore, since you, Louise, and Cinzia will be presenting "Horror Film," it would make sense for you three to coordinate who will present what aspect. It would be great if you could present "Teaching and Learning Cinema," your methodology behind it, and how the collaboration with Malcolm and Cinzia was established.

here is the info on the website with the date/ time:

Cinzia will talk about:

In my 10min presentation I will focus on Horror Film, I will describe the performance for those who don't know it and talk about my experience with its reenactment. I will probably quote your manual but I'll leave to you the full description of your amazing work.

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Aust Soc Archivists lightning talk 5 Sep 2023 Melbourne

Proposed Title: Participatory archives in Australia - adding to the knowledge base Abstract details, max 300 words - What are the details? Provide an abstract or other description of what your proposed contribution will cover and involve: Participatory appraisal has been discussed amongst archivists for decades. There is literature reporting on experiences in the UK and the US but there is limited reportage of the practice of building archives with communities in Australia. In January 2023 a project focused on a low-social capital suburb in Canberra was exhibited. This lightning talk reports back with some insights. A challenge for participatory appraisal identified through this project was scale – if successful, the volume of content quickly becomes overwhelming. Another challenge is the responsibility that goes with accepting content from contributors. Expectations are set up that the content will be used or shared. And crucially, participation means everyone. Strategies are needed to connect with contributors that goes beyond relationships in easy reach for the archivist based on existing connections. Recognising who is likely to be overlooked and thinking about how the project might connect with the aspirations of those community groups offered a starting point in this project. Demonstrating that those voices are wanted and welcome is another part of the puzzle. Some strategies include partnerships and focusing on community events where there has been broad participation. A final lesson comes from social engaged art, a practice that focuses on community participation. This calls on the archivist to recognise their standpoint, the worldview they bring. Our sector has recognised that collections and building them is not neutral. For archivists, there remains much to do to work out how to meaningfully share that power and authority as collections are built.  I am submitting a proposal for the following:: Lightning Talks – informal short talk of 7 mins plus 5 minutes for Q & A My contribution fits in with the conference theme as follows: The challenge of developing archival collections with communities is ongoing, this short talk makes a contribution to that discussion.  The format of my presentation is: Lightning talk presenting 3 key challenges and some strategies to address them. 

Brief biography (max. 200 words): Dr Louise Curham is an archivist, artist and lecturer in the Libraries, Archives, Records and Information Science discipline at Curtin University. As an archivist, Louise worked for over a decade at National Archives of Australia in audiovisual preservation and government information. Other work in archives and records has been in community archives and museums. As an artist, Louise has been part of Australia’s experimental and media arts scene since 1992

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International Seminar of Documents, Records and Archives October 2023

In October 2023, I gave a presentation to this event organised by the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia, the National Archives of Indonesia.

Here are my slides

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ArtsACT Kambah Turns 50 - application for Arts Activities funding - Feb 2024, Louise Curham support material

Images: maximum ten images (note, several were uploaded with the application)

Video files: maximum three files, and not more than six minutes in total (none included in the application)

Here's a link to my CV.

Some projects from the past two years ...

curating the Antics Hair Microcinema in Canberra with screenings featuring interstate and international work

Canberra Art Biennial 2022 - short film performances

Kambah at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Jan Feb 2023

Compost Film with B Turner and UK Fredericks at Belconnen Arts Centre in the University of Canberra group show

Images:

In the exhibition Kambah, I used pinhole photography and cyanotypes as a way to investigate the visual experience of Kambah. I photographed everyday scenes. The intention in using old media was to represent things we in Kambah see every day using a process that makes them look different, to encourage residents to think more about these places and what they mean to them.

The following two images were exhibited in 'Kambah' Jan/Feb 2023 at Tuggeranong Arts Centre. Both are produced using Harman direct positive paper in a homemade pinhole camera, built during the Covid pandemic lockdowns.

This image is one of the cyanotypes:

The Kambah exhibition, an installation shot, left to right: Paul Collis poem (commissioned for the exhibition), pinhole camera on plinth, 7 enlargements of pinhole images of Kambah, sitting circle for conversations with visitors and community members, Bennet family 16mm home movie provided by the NFSA, pinhole originals (5x4 inch, clusters of 6-9 images), cyanotypes of plants of Kambah (5 x4 inch, cluster of 9 images).

Media related to the exhibition:

Brian Rope in the Canberra Times 10 Feb 2023

Living Arts Canberra blog, 28 Jan 2023, audio interview

ArtSound FM interview, ABC Canberra Sunday morning interview, Feb 2023.

Reflective article related to the exhibition, ABC Canberra Sunday morning 17 Dec 2023 related to this article.

The purpose of this exhibition was to work towards the 50th anniversary of the suburb Kambah in 2024. It was also to develop entries for the Kambah Peoples Map, in development by me since 2020. The map uses a locative media tool developed by artists in Belgium and Spain. it allows a curated map primarily for use on a mobile phone while in a set location, here's a link to the work-in-progress map.

Here's a screenshot:

Other key work of mine

Since the early 2000s, a strand of my practice focuses on re-enacting 1970s media art in the artist/archivist collaboration with Lucas Ihlein under our nom de plume, Teaching and Learning Cinema (T:LC). In this image Lucas is setting up for Horror Film 1, a work by British artist Malcolm Le Grice from 1971. TLC carries out this re-enactment process as a way to learn about the work which we then document in instruction manuals, or 'user's manuals' as we call them.

Using old media to produce works on paper:

Here's a still from the project from 2008 Waiting to Turn into Puzzles. This image formed part of a musical score prepared in collaboration with composer David Young.

Here's an image from my 2015 solo exhibition at PhotoAccess in Canberra, A Film of One's Own [Archive Fever].

This is an AO sized work (larger than a metre) made from scanning an entire short 16mm handmade film:

My film work using old media, 16mm and super 8, is known and used by Australia's experimental music community. The films must be performed live, so they have some presence in the experimental film community, but that is limited due to that requirement for liveness.

Here's an example:

And one more:

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Excellent DIY film publication by Esther Urlus who does beautiful things making emulsions

https://www.filmlabs.org/docs/toboldlygo.pdf

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Autumn Fog 4.9 and 5.0

Autumn Fog 5.0 was used by Lucas in July 2019. He made paper annotations.

I resolved the A3 version of 4.5 used by Robert Agostino, Peter Humble and Richard Tuohy were more useful because

the fold allows them to fit inside a 16mm film can, useful for distribution

the A3 layout allows the user to see the whole set of insructions at once.

However, performance in Sep 2022 in the Canberra Art Biennial with Horror Film 1 showed me that the 5.0 layout with one opening per shot was easier to use because of the larger size and font.

Going back over the files in Nov 2023, I find:

updates were made using Lucas' notes to 4.9, an A3 version.

updates were made in InDesign for a version 5.0 update.